A shootout in front of a funeral left 14 injured in Chicago on Tuesday.
Chicago, United States:
A shootout outside a funeral left 14 injured in Chicago on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump threatens to send federal agents to a handful of US cities run by Democratic mayors.
The episode began when occupants of a vehicle “started shooting at funeral attendees. At this point, funeral attendees exchanged gunfire,” the deputy police commissioner said. from Chicago, Eric Carter.
Shooting has become incredibly normal this summer in the United States. A total of 63 people were shot and 12 killed over the weekend in Chicago as part of the continued gun violence, according to local media.
Carter said 14 people were injured in Tuesday’s shooting, but did not specify the degree of severity.
Trump’s threat to send more military-clad law enforcement to U.S. cities has primarily been in response to the anti-racist protests that rocked the country following the death of African American George Floyd at the hands of a white Minneapolis policeman in May.
After the Department of Homeland Security deployed dozens of border patrol officers and federal marshals – many in combat fatigues – to Portland, Oregon last week, Trump said he could do some even in other Democrat-run cities like Chicago and New York.
According to reports, DHS was preparing to send 150 paramilitary personnel to Chicago after police clashed with protesters seeking to demolish a statue of Christopher Columbus.
Trump called the move necessary, even saying Chicago was “worse than Afghanistan.”
The president also designated Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore and Oakland as potential cities for sending federal agents.
On Monday, the mayors of six major cities – Atlanta, Washington, Seattle, Chicago, Portland and Kansas City – said in a letter to Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Attorney General Bill Barr that uninvited paramilitary deployments violated the Constitution.
